CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



DEDICATION, v 



INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION , . . . . vii 



INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION . x 



CHAPTER I. 

 OUR SOILS. 



Farming on an Exhausted Soil, . . . . 2 



Farming on Productive Soil, ..... 3 



Farming on Government Lands 4 



CHAPTER II. 

 OUR PLANTS. 



How to Feed Them 8 



Comparative Tables 12 



Barn-yard Manure, 13 



Green Manure, 17 



Liquid Manure, . 22 



Saving Manure (Plaster) , . . . . .25 



Commercial Fertilizer, 25 



Oil Cake and Cotton-Seed Meal 30 



CHAPTER III. 

 OUR ANIMALS. 



How to Feed Them Economically, . . . .33 



The Cow as a Machine, 33 



When Insufficiently Fed, 35 



CHAPTER IV. 

 SOILING. 



My First Lesson in Agriculture, . . . . .38 



How I Happened to Adopt Soiling, .... 44 



